False Friends or False Cognates

English shares with other languages, such as Portuguese, thousands of cognates. Cognates are words that look nearly the same in both languages, because they have the same etymolog, i.e. the same origin.

These words can be quite confusing and lead to a lot of misunderstandings.

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